ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, U.S. President Trump will sign an executive order at 2 AM Beijing time tomorrow.

ChainCatcher news, according to crowdfundinsider, CoinGecko's latest analysis report shows that the total market capitalization of publicly traded blockchain companies worldwide is $199.5 billion, accounting for 5.8% of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. The report points out that 46 blockchain companies are mostly listed on NASDAQ and are divided into five sectors: cryptocurrency mining, exchanges, finance and investment, technology, and others.Among them, the cryptocurrency mining sector is the most dominant, covering companies such as Mara Holdings, Core Scientific, and Riot Blockchain. Notably, Bitcoin mining companies are diversifying, expanding into high-performance computing (HPC) and AI data centers.In terms of exchanges, Coinbase has a market capitalization of $74 billion, far exceeding other exchanges, while Binance, despite having the largest trading volume globally, has yet to go public and faces regulatory challenges. The report concludes that blockchain companies are undergoing transformation, and the diversification of mining companies along with Coinbase's dominant position may have a profound impact on the industry's landscape in the future.

ChainCatcher news, according to Nikkei, the Financial Services Agency of Japan has begun to consider positioning crypto assets as financial products similar to securities, with the aim of requiring companies to disclose more detailed information to protect investors. Currently, the agency is holding closed-door study meetings with experts to review whether the current regulation of virtual currencies is sufficient.It is reported that the Financial Services Agency of Japan has begun to design a system, which will announce the system reform policy in June this year, and after discussions at the Financial System Council this autumn, the law will be amended at the regular Diet session in 2026. The new system also aims to lift the ban on "Bitcoin spot ETFs" and may reduce the current tax rate of up to 55% to 20%, the same as the financial income tax rate, in order to achieve the goal of both protecting investors and revitalizing the market. An important question raised for the future is whether the target includes all crypto assets or is limited to those assets that have been approved as ETFs in the United States, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

ChainCatcher news, according to Nikkei, the Financial Services Agency of Japan has begun to consider positioning crypto assets as financial products similar to securities, with the aim of requiring companies to disclose more detailed information to protect investors. Currently, the agency is holding closed-door study meetings with experts to review whether the current regulation of virtual currencies is sufficient.It is reported that the Financial Services Agency of Japan has begun to design a system, which will announce the system reform policy in June this year, and after discussions at the Financial System Council this autumn, will amend the law at the regular Diet session in 2026. The new system also aims to lift the ban on "Bitcoin spot ETFs" and may reduce the current tax rate of up to 55% to 20%, the same as the financial income tax rate, in order to both protect investors and revitalize the market. An important question raised for the future is whether the target is all crypto assets or only those that have been approved as ETFs in the United States, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.Bloomberg recently reported that "the expert study group established by the Financial Services Agency of Japan generally agrees that cryptocurrencies are beginning to be positioned as investment targets," which seems to be a response to the U.S. SEC's approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs and Ethereum spot ETFs, as well as the Trump administration's support for the crypto industry.

ChainCatcher news, according to News1, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea released its 2025 work plan on February 10, announcing that it will introduce self-regulatory standards for the disclosure of cryptocurrency asset information this year. In addition to formulating self-regulatory standards for information disclosure, the FSS will also establish business conduct guidelines for advertising and marketing. The agency will actively support the second phase of legislative work promoted by the National Assembly and the government, and plans to study international regulatory systems for cryptocurrency asset innovation to provide references for legislation. Furthermore, the FSS will build the "Cryptocurrency Asset Investigation System Phase II" to enhance monitoring of cryptocurrency asset prices and trading volumes.

ChainCatcher news, crypto blogger AB Kuai.Dong pointed out that the current crypto market is generally facing a liquidity shortage issue, except for Bitcoin. Many projects are forced to issue tokens at high prices due to overvaluation in the last round, in order to avoid early investors' rights protection. It is expected that new projects launched this year may face a decline of over 80%, with a $2 billion initial offering potentially dropping to $300 million, and a $700 million project possibly falling below $100 million. Projects with a market cap below $100 million that have not opened TGE node sales and public offerings face relatively less pressure, and this phenomenon may continue until the summer of 2025.Analysis indicates that not only retail investors but also institutions and node purchasers are adopting short-selling strategies for hedging after new coins are launched. The crypto VC industry may undergo a restructuring from the second half of 2025 to 2026. Influenced by the excessive returns of 2020-2021, a large influx of funds has led to investment managers' salaries rising to over $5,000 per month. As five-year funds are about to expire, some funds may be unable to complete a new round of fundraising due to investment returns falling short of expectations, leading to potential large-scale layoffs and salary cuts in the industry.

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector continues to generally decline, with AI Agents and Meme sectors experiencing significant drops of 6.92% and 5.38% over the past 24 hours, respectively. The AI Agents sector has been continuously declining recently, with the leading project Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) down 10.42% and Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) down 9.58%. However, the mainstream AI token ai16z (AI16Z) rose against the trend by 9.52%. The Meme sector has seen consecutive declines, with Dogecoin (DOGE) down 4.59% and OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) down 14.08%, falling over 80% from previous highs.In other sectors, the CeFi sector has a 24-hour decline of 2.27%, the Layer1 sector is down 2.72%, the DeFi sector is down 3.17%, the Layer2 sector is down 3.66%, and the PayFi sector is down 3.98%. Within the sectors, XRP is down 4.03%, Stellar (XLM) is down 7.44%, but Litecoin (LTC) rose against the trend by 2.65%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, an IT engineer named James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins (currently worth about $750 million or £620 million) at a landfill site in Newport, Wales, which is scheduled to close in 2025-26. Howells' attempts to sue the city council for permission to access the site or for compensation have all failed.The city council plans to close the landfill that has been in use since the early 2000s, with part of the land to be used for the construction of a solar power plant to supply electricity for the city's increasingly large fleet of electric garbage trucks, gradually phasing out diesel vehicles.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale sold 4.88 million VIRTUAL for 5.385 million USDC 9 hours ago, incurring a loss of up to 4.47 million dollars (-45%) on VIRTUAL.He purchased these 4.88 million VIRTUAL for 9.86 million U half a month ago (1/27-1/29), with an average purchase price of 2.02 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, Alliance DAO co-founder Qiao Wang stated on his social platform that "perhaps we have already seen the cycle peak of most altcoins, but I believe that sometime this year BTC and a few quality altcoins will still have another significant rise."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, publicly listed companies currently hold a total of 622,735 bitcoins, with a market value of approximately $59.82 billion, accounting for 2.965% of the total bitcoin supply (21 million coins).

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Circle issued an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain 6 hours ago.Since 2025, Circle has cumulatively issued 7 billion USDC on the Solana chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to Sina Finance, on the same day that DeepSeek officially clarified that it "has never issued any virtual currency," the prices of some counterfeit DeepSeek tokens rapidly "went to zero." Multiple virtual currencies named "DeepSeek," "DeepSeekAI," "DeepSeekR1," and others have now seen their trading "halted."Among the many fake DeepSeek tokens, there is a fraudulent DeepSeek token named "Seek," which was launched on January 28. Before the crash, its market capitalization had reached 48 million USD.Security company BlockAid reported that 75 fake DeepSeek tokens have been created on the Ethereum and Solana networks, with a total fraud amounting to 420 million RMB. Lawyers warn that the issuers of such virtual currencies may have malicious motives such as confusing the public, making quick profits, and evading regulation. Additionally, these virtual currency projects often have a "small market," making them easy to manipulate, and their value can quickly drop or go to zero. Once investors are "scalped" by the project parties, it becomes difficult to trace the specific responsible individuals or entities.

ChainCatcher news, Gray has posted job openings on platform X, including ETF Project Manager, Media Planner, and Vice President of Communications.

ChainCatcher message, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng posted on X platform stating, "TST has been listed on Binance. A few thoughts:Zhao Changpeng talked about the "fundamentals," and then mentioned the transition from test tokens to meme coins. I posted to clarify that TST has not received my/our endorsement. It is merely a test token used in the video tutorial. But for whatever reason, every clarification post makes it even more popular.Is Zhao Changpeng deviating from fundamentals? No. I am a builder. I always focus on fundamentals.Does Zhao Changpeng "like" meme coins now? It depends on your definition of "like." So far, I have not bought a single meme coin.So, does Zhao Changpeng oppose meme coins? No. Not "liking" something does not mean I oppose it. I don’t like sports cars; I don’t collect art; I have never bought any NFTs; I also haven’t bought most altcoins (I hold BTC and BNB). But I do not oppose any of the above. I think most of you would agree that I work hard and "do my best" to help many altcoins and the entire crypto industry. I hold the same view towards meme coins.Why is TST listed on Binance? I’m not quite sure. I had no involvement in their listing process. Based on historical experience, people always complain, "Why did you list this, but not the token I hold?" You may not like to hear this, but the fact is: exchanges must compete to list popular tokens early (with trading volume). If your token is actively sought after by traders, you don’t need to talk to the exchange. As I often say, focus on your project, not the exchange.Why do people buy memes instead of utility tokens? I don’t know, but I’m willing to take some guesses (pun intended). Over the past four years, a strong regulatory body has prosecuted almost everyone with utility tokens, falsely claiming they are securities. Therefore, people started launching memes. There is a class of traders known as speculators. Things with clear tangible value are harder to speculate on. They hover around clear value. This is indeed a challenge for RWAs. For example, a building with little value fluctuation may not have much trading activity. Thus, it won’t have much liquidity, the order book becomes thin, and then trading activity decreases, creating a vicious cycle. Memes are fun, etc. This is a cultural issue. I am not an expert in this area. There are many staunch defenders of memes. Don’t go against the community.Finally, it is clear that there is a lot of capital available for investment in the market. There are many opportunities. You need to create what people want."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Michael Pond, head of global inflation-related research at Barclays, stated that the prices of inflation-indexed bonds reflect that the inflation rate in the United States will increase by 0.2 percentage points over the next year, with about a quarter of this increase caused by gasoline.

ChainCatcher news, according to Sina Finance, on the same day that DeepSeek officially clarified that it "has never issued any virtual currency," the prices of some counterfeit DeepSeek tokens rapidly "went to zero." Multiple virtual currencies named "DeepSeek," "DeepSeekAI," "DeepSeekR1," and others have now seen their trading "halted."Among the many fake DeepSeek tokens, there is a fraudulent DeepSeek token named "Seek," which was launched on January 28. Before the crash, its market value had reached 48 million USD. Security company BlockAid reported that 75 fake DeepSeek tokens have been created on the Ethereum and Solana networks, with a total fraud amounting to 420 million RMB.Lawyers remind that the issuers of such virtual currencies may have malicious motives such as confusing the public, making quick profits, and evading regulation. At the same time, the "market" for these virtual currency projects is very small, making them easy to manipulate, and their value may rapidly decline or go to zero. Once investors are "harvested" by the project parties, it is difficult to trace the specific responsible individuals or entities.

ChainCatcher message, Hartmann Capital founder Felix Hartmann posted: "I might be a bit early, but I feel we are close to the bottom.The funding rate has been negative for a while. The futures premium flipped to negative weeks ago.AI tokens have dropped 80-99%. Quality altcoins have retraced to long-term trend lines, eliminating the excessive rise in Q4.Market sentiment has completely collapsed------this is often the best signal.Stablecoins are not going away; they need on-chain infrastructure. AI agents are inevitable, and they require non-KYC financial channels. The wealth effect of Bitcoin once drove altcoins up, but the ETF era has changed that.Fink expects a SOL ETF soon------unlike BTC/ETH, there are no pending issues with Grayscale. Pure capital inflow. ETFs could become events similar to the Coinbase/Binance listings in this cycle. Cryptocurrency has a cultural problem------too much extraction, too little creation. But the next four years will bring real progress in stablecoins and AI.Today's feeling of despair is as irrational as the euphoria of Q4. We may oscillate, but most of the unlocked venture capital tokens may have already been sold off in the past two quarters. This could be the final stage."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Catizen announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to jointly develop an AI-driven virtual pet, AI Cat. AI Cat provides users with a smarter and more personalized virtual pet interaction experience by combining Web3 technology and artificial intelligence.Currently, Catizen has completed the construction of its application center advertising system, and its ecological game Cattea has achieved 60 million ad views, having completed all roadmap goals for Q1.